Famous Quotes & Sayings

Euripides

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

Julian Barnes

But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

Harry S Truman

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.

Norman Ralph Augustine

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

Ted Nugent

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

Mahatma Gandhi

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

Jack Welch

If you reward candor, you'll get it.

Michael Polanyi

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.

Michael Pollan

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

Joel Osteen

Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.

John Gokongwei

Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.

John Fowles

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

John Dryden

Virtue is her own reward.

John Maynard Keynes

Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.

Jim Rohn

Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.

Jim Rohn

It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.

Joyce Meyer

I’m living now in my reward.

Livy

Never is work without reward, or reward without work.

Juvenal

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Lord Acton

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

John Betjeman

Lord, reserve for me a crown, And do not let my shares go down.

Karl Marx

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

Paul Allaire

If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.

Julia Quinn

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

Leonardo da Vinci

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

Mitch Daniels

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve